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“Let your heart guide you. It whispers softly, so listen closely.” - Unknown

I've been playing with my DCR-250 again attached to my 100mm macro. The very shallow DoF can be challenging, but also offers a unique softness, like in this shot. Hope you enjoy it!

Eastern Pale Chanting Goshawk (Melierax poliopterus) Blek sånghök

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It is a resident species of dry, open semi-desert with 75 cm or less annual rainfall. It is commonly seen perched on roadside telephone poles.

The Pale Chanting Goshawk eats a variety of vertebrate prey?mainly lizards, but also small mammals and birds?and large insects. It often walks on the ground.

This is generally a rather quiet bird, but during the breeding season the male makes a series of tuneful whistling calls kleeuu, kleeuu-ku-ku-ku from a tree-top perch.

The relatively small stick nest is built in an acacia at a height of 3 to 10 m. The female lays and incubates one or two pale bluish or greenish white, unmarked eggs. Only one chick is normally reared from a nest of two. The young after leaving the nest may be found near it for some months and in the following year may even display in the same area.

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